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Posted 03.01.11 |
John Thackara
Work Faster, India!
"Work faster, get time for life." I just got back from a short trip to India where this insane slogan adorned a poster at a bus stop.
It pretty much sums up a febrile mood in Delhi where it was announced during my stay that India's economy will grow by nine percent next year. (I say "announced" because the government spokesman said they were powerless to reduce the economy's rate of growth.)
Among the consequences of this great success: a sulphur dioxide-spewing coal-fired power station (one of
twenty being built in Gujarat alone
) is being built ten kilometers upwind from the idyllic farm of my host in Vidodara. He's a senior industrialist — and even he can't stop it.
In 2007, India's coal-fired power plants consumed 6.6 quadrillion Btu of coal — and the country plans to
double its energy generation capacity by 2035
. That is a lot of SO2.
On the positive side, although India is herself a major coal producer, the country also
needs to purchase tens of millions of tons of coal
from Australia, Indonesia, South Africa and the US to meet its near-future needs. So perhaps
peak coal
will ensure that the Gujarat plant never gets lit.
Why is all this energy needed? A lot of blame is heaped on India's emerging middle class consumers; for many of these 270+ million people, an air conditioner in every room is becoming the norm. But a fair bit of power was also needed by the DJs and VJs at
Salon der Alchemisten
— the final event of the UnBox festival I was attending.
In a beautiful piece of symmetry, the evening featured
Talvin Singh (Jaan).
In 2000, Kristi van Riet used Talvin's music throughout
Doors 6 on Lightness in Amsterdam.
Talvin's music transformed our event then — and probably helped persuade us to move Doors events to India.
Listen to the song with Spotify
"Life's Work: Opportunities in the Restorative Economy"
I often think of the post-it notes generated at a brainstorm as being like butterflies: beautiful, in their own way — but doomed to a short life.
Ideas are not hard. It's selecting the best ones, and implementing them, that's hard.
What kind of filter might we use to make sense of the swarm of ways being proposed to fix the environmental and social challenges we face?
First I propose an ethical framework for design in which life is the ultimate source of value. This ethical framework leads us unavoidably to re-conceive mainstream notions of "development" and — within that framework — the kinds of value that design can create;
Second, I propose that we evaluate proposed design interventions through a process which measures the true costs of the thermo-industrial, doomsday machine economy we have now.
I conclude, thirdly, with the proposition that India has the opportunity to take the lead here — precisely because its design infrastructure is less 'developed' than the mature but wrongly developed one we have in the North.
In 1949, the American forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold proposed what he called a "land ethic" that would guide "man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it."
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community," wrote Leopold. "It is wrong, when it tends otherwise."
("Biotic community" here is another name for what we now call the biosphere.)
A growing worldwide movement is looking at the world through this fresh lens. Sensible to the value of natural and social ecologies, they are searching for ways to preserve, steward and restore assets that already exist — so-called net present assets — rather than thinking, first, about extracting raw materials to make new consumables from scratch.
It would be no small thing for designers to decide to take a stand — explicitly — for an unconditional respect for life, and for the conditions that support life.
Such a commitment would be stronger than the hippocratic oath sworn by doctors. Young doctors promise to "prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment — and never do harm to anyone."
Unambiguous respect for human life here — but no mention of the rest of life!
An unconditional respect for life would also be clearer than the proposed scientific oath that's been circulating since the late-1990s.
In this text, scientists would commit to "minimise and justify any adverse effect our work may have on people, animals and the natural environment."
The natural environment is mentioned, which is a step forward. But the proposed commitment here is to *minimise* adverse effects — not stop them altogether.
In terms of values, of a changed belief system, these, I believe passionately, are steps along the way.
But only steps.
You may argue that this is to state the obvious: That of course you respect life, and the conditions that support life.
But I stress the word unconditional. If a commitment is unconditional, it does not mean "take account of," or "pay due respect to," or "move steadily toward."
It does not mean "minimize adverse effects on nature." It means a target of no adverse effects.
"A thief who tells a judge he is stealing less than before will receive no leniency. So why do companies get environmental awards for polluting less — even though they are still polluting?"
The biomimicry entrepreneur Gunter Pauli, who I'm quoting here, is scornful of the "do less bad" school of environmentalism — and, by implication, "do-less-bad" design.
Rather than "do less bad" — or greenwashing design — Pauli demands that we commit to Net Positive Impact — that's to say, "economic activity where the demands placed upon the environment are met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations."
Otherwise stated: Leave the world better than we found it.
It is no small thing to acknowledge the biosphere as a systemic whole — and to act on the basis that human beings are a co-dependent part of this whole.
A celebrated book by Oliver Saks,
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
, is about a man who looks at something familiar — but perceives that something completely differently.
We all need to look at industrial society in such new ways.
I should warn you that this is not a relaxing frame of mind, once you get into it.
I first experienced this unsettling perceptual shift at Madrid's new airport. It was hard not to admire the gorgeous roof, the soaring curves, and the vast swathes of new concrete apron. But I then I started to wonder about the amount of energy embodied in the artefacts. structures and processes that surrounded me.
Madrid's elegant concrete pillars looks benignly tree-like — until I remembered the amount of carbon dioxide emissions generated during its fabrication; a ton of CO2 is emitted for every ton of cement used.
An airport is made up of an awful lot of tonnes when you add up the concrete floors and those endless acres of concrete taxiways and runways.
At that moment the smooth vast lines of a big airbus caught my attention as it taxied in to park: how many millions of pounds of matter and energy must have been used to build it?
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Often, when I quote these highly uncomfortable facts, designers get cross and irritable.
When I spoke at one big conference in the US, they projected tweets live onto a giant screen beside me! "What's all this got to do with interaction design?" said one, as the words came out of my mouth.
In his book
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
, Jared Diamond explains that one reason societies fail is that their elites are insulated from the true energy costs of their society.
Diamond focuses in his book on Easter Island, where the overuse of wood products eventually destroyed its inhabitants' survival prospects.
The lesson applies equally to us, today.
We are bewitched, as a culture, by a high entropy concept of quality and performance.
Our lust for speed, perfection and control blinds us to the fact that we live in a catabolically-challenged world.
Catabolic, here, is a great word use by one of my favourite writers, John Michael Greer. It describes the energy usage — the "metabolism" — of our thermo-industrial economy.
It has become so complex, and so inter-connected, that it has to burn through astronomical amounts of energy just to remain operational.
Greer explains that our economy is in danger of 'catabolic collapse' because it depends on perpetually growing throughputs of energy and resources — and infinitely growing throughputs are simply not going to be available.
This is why
' True Cost campaign calls our economy a "doomsday machine"
We strive after infinite growth in a world whose carrying capacity is finite.
The better the economy performs — faster growth, higher GDP — the faster we degrade the biosphere that is the basis of life and our only home.
It's madness. And the world is waking up to the fact that it's madness.
The reason I remain hopeful, despite the doomsday machine being out of control, is that its replacement is now emerging.
A new kind of economy — a restorative economy — is emerging in a million grassroots projects and experiments all over the world.
The better-known examples have names like Post-Carbon Cities, or Transition Towns.
But examples also include dam removers, and seed bankers, iPhone doctors and rainwater rescuers.
It is happening wherever people are growing food in cities, opening seed banks, or turning school backyards into edible gardens.
The movement includes people who are restoring ecosystems and watersheds. Their number includes dam removers, wetland restorers and rainwater rescuers.
Many people in this movement are recycling buildings in downtowns and suburbs, favelas and slums. So called "slack space" activists work alongside computer recyclers, hardware bricoleurs, office-block refurbishers and trailer-park renewers.
You'll find the movement wherever people are launching local currencies. Non-money-trading models are cropping up like crazy: nine thousand examples at last count. In their version of a green economy, 70 million Africans exchange airtime, not cash, using the M-pesa system.
Thousands of groups, tens of thousands of experiments. For every daily life-support system that is unsustainable now — food, health, shelter and clothing — alternatives are being innovated.
What they have in common is that they are creating value without destroying natural and human assets.
The keyword here is social innovation — and the creation of social goods — because this movement is about groups of people innovating together, not lone inventors.
A subset of this movement, Transition Towns, is especially significant.
Transition initiatives, which only started four years ago, are multiplying at extraordinary speed. More than 600 communities in Europe and North America have been officially designated Transition Towns, or cities, districts, villages — even a forest.
The transition model — I'm quoting their website — "emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye."
The key point is that they don't just look: Transition groups break down the scary, too-hard-to-change big picture into bite-sized chunks.
They create a community-level to-do list, with an order of priorities.
This plan describes not only the skills and resources that a community will need to cope with the challenges coming down the track, but also how those skills and resources are to be put in place and who will do what.
The Transition model is powerful because it brings people together from a single geographical area. These people, yes, of course, have different interests, agendas and capabilities. But they are united in being dependent on, and committed to, the context in which they live.
A second reason the Transition model is so powerful is that it uses a process of setting agendas and priorities — the "open space" method — that is genuinely inclusive of all points of view.
Designers have an important contribution to make in this fast-emerging movement.
Not much, any more, as the creators of completely new products, buildings and communications.
"New" is an old paradigm.
But designers can very usefully cast fresh and respectful eyes on a situation.
Designers — and artists, are brilliant at spotting material and cultural qualities that might not be obvious to those who live in them.
Nabeel Hamdi, the author of
Small Change
and a world expert on city design, celebrates the fact that this kind of design gives priority to the existing life and intelligence of place.
But it's not just about finding a warehouse to do art projects in.
A second task of restorative design is to make it easier to share all kinds of resources — not just spaces. Resources such as energy, matter, time, skill, software or food.
Resource-sharing is a service. And many of you are service designers.
You have the necessary skills to help groups of people determine:
— What kind of resource sharing service they need (you can even call it a "service architecture" if you must!)
— What kind of technology platform might be needed.
— How to make the "touch points" in your resource-sharing service enjoyable and engaging .
At the scale of the city, or the city-region, regenerative or restorative design re-imagines the man-made world as being one element among a complex of interacting, co-dependent ecologies: energy, water, food, production and information.
Restorative design — at a city or regional scale — takes natural biodiversity and its starting point – with special emphasis on bioregions, foodsheds and watersheds.
In ths kind of work, new forms of representation are needed to communicate energy and nutrient cycles, or biodiversity — and to show the different ways that healthy social systems depend upon, and are intertwined with, healthy economies and ecosystems.
It's not about back-to-nature. It's about enabling these different ecologies and flows and networks help each other.
India, in this context, has a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to innovate a new kind of design at the exact moment when the old world's model is on its last legs.
What the world needs — and not just India — is a new kind of design
— Is based on the new core value of a restorative economy.
— Engages with the next economy, not the dying one we have now.
— Focuses on service and social innovation, not on the outputs of extractive industries.
— Is unique to its place — and therefore infinitely diverse — but is also globally networked.
In some ways I am describing India now. Today. So, what's the best way for India to grasp this opportunity?
What I think's needed is a new kind of school. Not so much a finishing school — more a starting over again school.
The best way to create this kind of school would be to start planting real seeds, right now, into India's fertile ground.
Different kinds of courses and learning models could be piloted and adapted to India's multitude of different contexts.
These pilots would not require new campuses. They could use existing facilities. The main investment would be in people to co-ordinate them.
But what kinds of seeds?
India is not alone in needing to innovate new educational models. On every continent, outside its Big Tent — over there on the edge of the clearing — exotic new species of design and business education are emerging.
These new schools and courses have names like Yestermorow School, Deep Springs College, Kaos Pilots, School of Everything, Social Edge, Deep Democracy, Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College, Living Routes, Gaia U, Crystal Waters, Horses Mouth, WOOF, The Art of Hosting.
Few designers, few policy makers, and few entrepreneurs, have even heard of these places.
But these 'outliers' are where the real innovation is happening — in terms of content, form and business model.
But they are significant, for me, because they
meet the requirements of these new times
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Just as Jared Diamond states, destruction of forest ecosystems has been the peril of many insular societies. This is still happening today in developing countries, still, just look at Indonesia or Madagascar. Starting with small examples of involving the local community in sustainable land use management practises would be in line with your thinking. Sensible use of renewable resources will be part of the solution to save the 'biotic community'.
The indiscriminate use of non-renewable resources is much more of a threat, though. perhaps because it is less visible from land-use point of view, the extraction of oil, coal and metals have much longer lasting effects on our planet. Even badly degraded land after slash and burn cultivation can most often be reforested. But the non-renewable raw materials, plastic, metals, stay with us for times to come. And their lives after the first round of use are sometimes appalling ending up in foodchains and even in the best cases as land, soil or airfill.
Ohto Nuottamo
03.07.11 at 09:14
We can worry about making the world a better place after basic needs of populations across the world has been met. It is fashionable for people from developed countries to talk about saving the planet from "doomsday machine economy".
But ask yourself if you are ready to live a third world life of poverty in exchange for 'saving the planet". Are you ready to drink water that may not be potable, Are you willing to forgo the use of electricity? Are you willing to forgo access to usable transport network? Are you willing to reduce your communication by stopping use of internet, phone and postal service?
Countries like India are in desperate need of power to help millions rise up from sub-standard quality of life. Coal fired plants are still the cheapest means of producing electricity reliably despite what heavily subsidized "green power" lobby would like to say.
Nobody has the right to experiment with the lives of half a billion people in the name of trying to create a "restorative economy".
Old World's model may seem to be on its last legs to people out of touch with reality. If anything, a new set of legs has been added in recent times to the old model in a huge country called China.
Atleast two generations of Indians suffered without living their lives to its full potential thanks to stupid socialistic ideologies.
Global warming and Sustainable movements are new form of half baked socialistic ideas by jobless minds. Another generation of Indians should not be made to suffer to test these hypothetical possibilities from yet to be invented "innovative" technologies that "may" at some point in the future be affordable to masses who are still struggling to put food on the table everyday
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Hidden Neighborhoods: Wychwood Park
Have you ever been to Wychwood Park? Does your city have a similar hidden neighborhood?
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I love this neighborhood. We live down the street and are counting the years before we can afford to move there.
It's a beautiful neighborhood, I'm so pleased to see it on apartment therapy!
Awesom neighbourhood for a leisurely bike ride. You forget you're in the heart of downtown, it's so quiet and green and peaceful!
I love this neighbourhood. It's especially nice to bike around in the fall when the leaves change colour. The houses there are massive mansions, but they are also so tastefully done that it doesn't feel gross in that showy way.
The photos posted do not do this neighbourhood justice.
#4 is for sale right now....if you've got $2.7 million to spare, it's all yours!
It sounds cool. I wish there were photos of the actual houses. Maybe I will Google it later.
Honestly, this place has always given me the creeps. I see the appeal of the all the trees and the pond, etc. but there is something a little...dead about the area. Like no one lives there, even though there are people living there.
Is that stop sign in the picture homemade?
I live a few blocks away and it's so quiet and beautiful to walk around there. So lucky to be close by!
I love hidden neighborhoods. The Guilford neighborhood in Baltimore is semi-hidden. It is bordered by main roads, but the interior has the feel of the English countryside. It has manor homes, a few cottages, and a tulip garden.
Looks lovely. What's not to like about a neighborhood with lovely trees and a pond and such a quiet and beautiful place to walk.
@ Leoneontheverge -- Don't you love how the realtor described the 2+ million $ house as 'humble'. He/she gives new meaning to the word!

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BRAC Match Program provides $2,500 to relocating civilian and military federal employees
CROWNSVILLE, Md. (September 29, 2010) – In support of Maryland's efforts to welcome families who are relocating to Maryland due to the U.S. Military's 2005 Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) decision, Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown and Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Secretary Raymond A. Skinner announced that DHCD will provide extra downpayment and closing cost assistance to qualified federal civilian and military employees purchasing a home in Maryland through the Maryland Mortgage Program (MMP). The BRAC Match Program will enable eligible BRAC homebuyers to receive $2,500 in downpayment and/or closing cost assistance. BRAC Match Program assistance is provided through a zero percent deferred loan and can be combined with other downpayment and closing cost assistance programs such as the $5,000 currently available to all borrowers through the Downpayment and Settlement Expense Loan Program (DSELP).
"Throughout our preparations for BRAC, we have made it a priority to assist relocating families with the information and programs they need to make an informed decision about buying a home in Maryland," said Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown, Chairman of the Governor's Subcabinet on BRAC. "In partnership with the military and the federal agencies that are relocating, we have developed the BRAC Match Program. With its increased level of downpayment and closing cost assistance, it should provide another big incentive for BRAC homebuyers to consider a Maryland Mortgage Program loan."
The BRAC Match Program is available to civilian and military employees of the federal defense agencies that are relocating to Maryland due to BRAC and other relocation activities. The program is also open to the employees of the defense contractors who support those agencies. The BRAC Match is only available to participants in the Maryland Mortgage Program.
"With the combination of low, fixed-rate interest terms, the $100 million set-aside, and a variety of downpayment and closing cost assistance programs like the BRAC Match, the Maryland Mortgage Program can be specifically tailored to meet the needs of BRAC families," said DHCD Secretary Raymond A. Skinner.
The Maryland Mortgage Program is the State's flagship mortgage assistance program, primarily serving first-time homebuyers, but it can also assist previous homeowners if they are veterans or if they are purchasing a home in a targeted area. Participation in the program is also governed by income and home price limits which vary by county, and homebuyer education is required for all borrowers. For information about current interest rates, participating lenders, housing counseling, targeted areas, and other program requirements, visit www.mmprogram.com.
Eligible federal agency employees can access the BRAC Match Program by presenting a copy of their relocation orders, such as Permanent Change of Station Orders – DD Form 1614, to their Maryland Mortgage Program lender when they apply for the Maryland Mortgage Program loan to indicate that they are eligible for the $2,500 in BRAC Match Program assistance. The Permanent Change of Station documentation is the only documentation required to reserve BRAC Match funds. For relocating employees that do not have Permanent Change of Station orders, other official forms documenting both their employer's relocation to Maryland from another state and the employee's entitlement to relocation costs or expenses will also be accepted.
Defense contractor employees must provide a letter from their employer, stating that the employee's move is due to 2005 BRAC decisions or the relocation of other federal defense agency activities to Maryland. The letter must describe the type of relocation or homebuying assistance the employee is entitled to receive from their employer as a result of this move. The employee then provides the "Contractor's Letter" to the Maryland Mortgage Program lender to show their eligibility for the BRAC Match.
Lt. Governor Brown chairs the Governor's Subcabinet on BRAC and oversees Maryland's BRAC preparations. The state will see as many as 60,000 new jobs across Maryland as a result of BRAC. In July 2010, Lt. Governor Brown announced that $100 million in MMP assistance will be set aside specifically for mortgages in 10 BRAC-impacted jurisdictions: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's Counties, and Baltimore City.


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Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Digital Collections
July 1, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 810511
Mr. HRUSKA. Mr. President, ye&terday
the administration took action to
invoke the provisions of the Beef Import
Act of 1964, by Imposing limits on
import volume for the balance of 1970.
About 600 mUI1on pounds of bee! was
imported in the first half of thls year.
Indications were that the volume would
be that much or more for the second
If that proved to be the case the " t rigger
point" of 1.1 billion pounds would be
Hence, the President did impose quotas
as provided by law. He then set them
aside in favor of restriction of imports
to a maxin1um of 1.140 billion pounds for
the current calendar year. This level was
·based primarily on voluntary agreements
of exporting countries. It is a voluntary
restraint level.
This level is only 40 million pounds
above the statutory trigger point of
1.1 billion pounds.
That trigger point consists of 998.8
million pounds basic quota-adjusted for
increased consumption 1n the United
St.ates-plus a 10-percent override of
99.9 million pounds. This comes to a total
of 1.1 billion pounds-rounded figure.
Yesterday's action also effected transfer
of authority of enforcing the import
law from the President to the Sec~tary
of Agriculture. This enables the Secretary
to enforce the voluntary agreements
negotiated with the importing countries
through the proviruons of section 204 of
the Agriculture Act of 1956.
Mr. President, the administration's
announcement yesterday on meat imports
is highly gratifying to those of us
from cattle-producing States because it
demonstrates the President fully understands
the need !or keeping a firm cont
rol over the volume of foreign meat
permitted into our US. market.
The action puts to an end the disturbing
and recurrin rumors during the past
few months .that controls might be lifted
ns a gesture to foreign producing countries
and those which import U.S. meat.
We are very pleased to learn that, rather
than adopting such a d1.sastrous course,
the administration has tightened up tL~
en tire system of import controls.
Yesterday's action, Mr. Pr esident, was
taken bec,,use Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford Hardin's estimate of meat imports
during the first 6 months· of the
year.show these imports have reached the
level called "the trigger point," under
the 1964 Beef Import Act. Thls is the
level at which the President Is authorized
by law to impose quotas if he feels such
action is in the national interest.
The President did impose quotas as
provided by law but he then set them
aside in favor of regulation of imports
to n. maximum of 1.140 billion pounds for
the current calendar year . This level
therefore becomes a voluntary restraint
level which must be observed by exporting
na tions, based upon voluntary agreements
which they have signed.
The voluntary restraint level is 40 million
pounds above the statutory trigger
point. This is how the trigger point is
Basic quota for 1970. adjusted !or
consump tion Increase In the
poun ds
United States ----- - ----- - ---- --- 098. 8
T en percent override______________ 99.9
Tote.! _____ ----- ------- _ 1, 098.7
This figure, rounded off, means that
the t rigger point was 1.1 billion pounds
of imported meat.
Imports during the first 6 months of
the year have totaled approximately 600
mlllion pounds. The adminlstr ation's act.
ion means that imports during the remainder
of the calendar year must be
held to a total of 540 mil11on pounds.
There are a number of impo1·tant aspects
to the Pr esident's deciSion, and I
would like to discuss them briefly, Mr.
President. They are :
First. His decision to place primary enforcement
n.uthority in the hands of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Second. The decision to stop transshipments
through Canada.
Third. The stability which is furnished
to the cat tle Industry.
Fourth. The long-range benefits of this
action to the consumer.
Fifth . The benefits to our national
economy .
. Sixth. The courage and foresir,-ht of
the President in protecting the Nation 's
valuable agricultural base m the face of
awesome pressure from various lobbies.
As to my first point, Mr. President, the
powP..rs contained 1n section 204 of the
Agricultural Act of 1956 have been de-
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 46, Folder 39, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
810512 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 1, 1970
legated to the Secretary of Agriculture.
In my opilUoo, this is the 11.ppropriate
place for them, for he is the official who
is close to the problem and understands
t):le vast implications of the import problem
upon agriculture, the consumer, and
our national welfare.
My second potnt is one which is nost
welcome to those of us who have watched
with conceo·n the growing practice of
Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland to
transship imported meat through Cana.
da. This is a process whereby they can
bring meat into the country without having
it charged against their me11.t import
quotas, stnce Canada is exempt froiiLquota
TraniShiped meat from Canada is one
of the principal reasens why our quantity
of meat imports haa r:iien so alarmtngly
tn rN:ent months. The situation
became so distu.rbillg :l.n March that 17
Members of this body appealoo to the
President to close the loophole whieh
was ~uccesliifully bypassing the quota limitations.
Similarly concerned Members of
the Hol.).!je of Representatives also vol.ced
their unrest with the practice.
Secretary llardin has now announced
he 1.~ te.ld:n.g &ePiii io place further tro.nsshipments
under tight quota controlil. In
the future, thOH that do come in from
the Canadian route wW ie charg(;d to
the qull'ta wrutat.)ons of thoe erl,jrinating
nation, aa part of it.s allowable imports.
No loneer will such shlpments swell the
import total& without being charged to a
specific importing nation.
My third llOint, Mr. Presideat, is the
value of these actions to the cattle industry.
The actions will be good news to
thl.s lndust,ry which naturally has been
concerned, tn the face of rumors and
doubt, for the future stability of its markets.
No one in thlfi important Industry
is anxious to reWri1 to the days of ·the
early !1160's when the import situation
threatened to propel the industry into a
state of chaol.
In my opinion, the cattlemen will
think the admtnistration's decision yesterday
U; fair and equitable. They will
appreciate the Pre~>ident's staunch supJl()
l't of their position that the stability
of. their industry i.i of vital concern to
the e~.msumer and tlie Nation. Stability
1s what this irulu~;try need& in order to
operate at its fullest J)Gt.ential. And stability
Ia not possible under & system of
unrestricted import~.
My fourth point and perhaps my most
important Qne, :Ur. President, ill the longrange
benefits of this II.Ction to the American
consumer. This i.i an area which
has been 5ub)ect to widespread misinterpretation
and. mi~lillderstandlng. Just a
short time ago, I was &&ked by a newspapermon
for my comment on the Admtni.
stration's action. l ~a.id tha.t I would
emphasize the benefits to the consumer.
At that point he demonstrated that he
too is a victim of the misunderstandingwhich
has been promoted by supporters
of more meat imoorts, for he said such
an explo.nat!on woultl. be a good trick if
I could do it.
I can do it, Mr. President, if we will
all take a long and close look at the
operation of the cattle tndustry. If we
CI\Il loolt at the sit-tmt.!on in this way, it
will i>i! seen thLlt yesterday's action Is
just as essential to the long-range well
being of the consumer as it is to the cattle
Over the long range, the best interest
of consumers is to be found in an ample,
dependable supply of quality beef produced
domesticn.lly. Such a supply will
not only fulfill the nation's ever-Increasing
need for its favorite food, but wlll
also have a highly beneficial impact upon
our economy. When foreign beef is purchased,
the fnnds tnvolved are lost to
the American economy.
Our cattle tndustry has the resources
and scientific knowledge to produce a
sufficient supply of cattle. It has done
so tn the past and can continue to do so
far Into £ne future.
To do It, however, a suitable economic
climate must be cteated and matntained.
The price structwe of cattle must be
reasonably favorable and stable. Otherwise
the cattJe industry will not find it
possible to inve.st the vast sums of money
and long periods of time needed to materin.
lly tncrease beef supplies.
It must be understood that it takes
3 years to produce cattle for processing.
Such a cycle with a large tnvestment
involved leaves the industry especially
vulnerable to shifting market conditions
and price variations.
In the early part of the 1960's, imports
were allowed to come in at a disastrous
volume. The cattle market collapsed.
With the promise of market stability
whlch the import limitations will furnish
to the industry, however, cattle growers
will feel secure 1n expanding their herds
to meet increasing demand. And expanded
herds will mean a more favorable
market situaiion for consumers, a
better supply and better prices.
Such a favorable market situation can
be created only when the imports are
llmlted so that the cattleman is assured
·of a stable market and can do some longrange
planntng to meet the market's demand.
It is not advantageous to the consumer
for a nation capable of producing its own
beef to become dependent on import6.
Yet that is what would come about if the
limitations were not enforced.
Let us consider what would happen if
the quota system were abandoned and
the price structure consequently changed.
Cattlemen would be unwilling to risk
their hard-~arned investment in longrange
planrllng predicated on an unstable
and probably unrewarding market. They
would produce fewer cattle.
As the domestic supply decreased, the
consumer would be forced to turn increasingly
to imported meat and eventually
would be completely at the mercy of
the importers. And I might point out that
when domestic prices rise alarmingly, the
critics of our system are quick to call for
Government controls. But they would call
In vain for controls on imported meat
prices for we could not enforce them.
For those who find It difficult to look
ahead in the face of consumer prices,
let me remind them of a fact which has
been discussed at length before thls body
on numerous occasions, Mr. President.
That fact 1.s that meat prices have not
gone up as much as other retail items
and they have not Increased as much as
Incomes. There Is no reason why they
should rise as. a result of the administration's
action, because the supply is
equal to the 'demand.
I might also remind my colleagues that
farmers and ranchers do not prcice.s& and
sell meat. ·They produce and sell cattle.
Cattle prices today are about the same
today as 20 years ago.
My fifth point is that this o.ction is important
to our national economy. The
cattle industry is the largest and most
critical segment of our agricultural industry.
Although industry has changed in
some ways, It is still the largest tndustry
in the Nation when one considers the
producers, the feed grain raisers, equipment
makers, suppliers and others involved
in the process of feeding our Na- ·
tlon and much of the world.
The Importance of the industry was
recognized by Secretary Hardin who
acknowledged that yesterday's action was
due in part to the special weight which
was given to the importance of the cattle
industry's well-being to our economy as
a whole.
There is still another benefit for the
Nation's economy. Given a stable market
situation, our production-stimulated by
unexcelled American scientific knowbow-
will meet and exceed the demand
· of American consumers. It k safe to
predict that in a space of 3 to 5 years
under such stable conditions, the American
cattle Industry will develop a significant
capability for exporting prime
cuts of meat. Such a capabll!ty would be
a most welcome asset in the Natio::~'s
constant tight to keep our balance of
international payments from ristng to
a more adverse level.
My last point, Mr. President, is to commend
Mr. Nixon for his courage and
statesmanship tn withstanding an toordinate
amount of pressure and propaganda
from the Meat Importers' Connell,
meat boards of exporttng nations, and
some so-called consumers groups which
unfortunately are often prone to be unduly
influenced by immediate considerations
at the expense of long-range benefits;
and even from a number of officials
at the local and Federal levels who have
felt they had political ammunition for
their own designs in the matter of meat
prices and meat imports.•
There is no question that a great deal
of llU>ney was expended by exporters and
importers tn order to tnduce the administration
to allow unlimited beef imports.
We must be grateful that the administration
has looked tnto the future and
measured accurately the importance of
supporting' the cattle industry as it did
yesterday. The action taken was wise. It
was , also In keeping with President
Nixon's pledge that he would "not turn
his back" to cattlemen.
I say again how gratified I am at this
action which 1.s welcomed as a clear Indication
that the domestic beef tndustry
can expand In confidence that its markets
and a fair price for its product will
prevail under this administration.
In my opinion, further expansion can
be predicted, and a steadily Increasing
supply of beef at reasonable prices, on a
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 46, Folder 39, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
July 1, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-S NATE 810513
t>a.~ls SR.tis!&.d.ory to both consumer anu
Mr. PresldPnt;, I ask unanioous con~
ent that t.here be printed at this point
in the Rr.coRD the following: First, a
rt>leRse from the Department o Agriculture
f'.nnnuncin~ the new meat import
progrllll\, and second, a pre.«S statement
of the Americ:tn National Cattlemen's
There beinso: no objection, the materia.i
'"as orderPd to be printed in the RECORD,
f'.S follows:
NEW M•A't' IMPORT Pa.OGRA).t } NNOUNCED
Th~ sP<::rP!Ary of State e.nd the sPcretnrr
ot Al(l'lculturo h&vP ~n lnstructpd by thr
PrP~Idef\t to oot new vntuntary restraint
levels on mee.t Imports undrr Section 204 o!
t!l<' ... 1(1'\cultnre.l Act of 1956.
AcrnrdlnRiy, SP.cr~tary of Ag:rlculture Cllff,.,
r; thnt •bls ILCtlon Is require<\
by ov~rrldlng economic Interest of tbe
United S!AtP.~. giving spPclal welgbt to t.he
lmnortance IJJ the nation ot the economic
well-being o! tbe dom~stlc Hvestock
The President aLo Indicated that lmI
orl.s would not be permitted to enter without
llmltl\tlon during the balance ot this
year. 7he Secr.,tary of State Is readjusting
th" voluntary re.•tralnt pro~rnm which hao
h~~n ne~>;otlated with thP. Governments oi
the prlnclp1Ll supplying countries to assure
tbat Import.< of tbese meats will not eKcecd
1,140 million pounds during cnlendar 11170.
Secretary Hard!n Indicated thnt tbls action
applies only to the balance of the current
year and does not establish a precedent
tor action which may be taken In 1911.
~crctary Hardin also stnted that he h
1 orlay t~tkln~t step• which would stop further
trs.n•"hlpm~nts through a tb1rd country o!
meat orlgln&tlog In Austrnlla. New Zcalnnd
ond Ir~land. The trR..nSshipmentc or meat
from Oceania have been an Important !actor
rontrlbuttng to the nPPd !or Increasing the
third qul\J'tPrly estimate.
The Secretary also stated that authority to
J.-ue rel(ulnttons Jtmltln~>; Imports or certain
meats •JndP.r Section 204 of the Agricultural
Act of 19513 have been dele~>;nted by the
T'r<'.sldent to the Secretary o! Agriculture under
an ExecutlvP Order issued simultaneously
with the Proclamation and suspension of
Public Law 88-482, enacted In August 1004,
provides that If yearly lmportR of certain
l'nel'l"-orirne.r!ly beP! and mutton-nre estimated
to equlll or excePd 110 percent of an
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Campus Spine - Create legible and intuitive wayfinding, with direct entry into the heart of the campus
Connected Precincts - Link the precincts of the campus with a continuous corridor of activated buildings and public realm
Campus Heart - New focus for student life and learning, including spaces to support pedagogical innovation
Spatial Network - Establish a network and hierarchy of public spaces
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The Mahanoy Township Authority has received reports from some of its customers that contractors have been identifying themselves as Authority employees to gain access to their homes. General Manager Bob Legutko stated that Water Authority employees have I.D. cards, have the logo on their uniforms, and drive in clearly marked vehicles. If anyone suspects any misrepresentation of Authority Personnel, please call the main office telephone number 570-773-0650 for verification.
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The below-grade connections from vertical to horizontal must be done with wyes, not tees. The water closet bend will not likely be directly over the main drain, nor would I want it to be. You will have to work out the distance and angle to make the connection.
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Random Names Name Game
I haven't seen a game like this before, and I think it's a lot of fun.
Go to http://www.random.org/ and set the Max. number to 10, keeping the Min. number at 1. Then press "Generate" You will get a random number between 1 and 10. That number is how many kids you'll have.
Then, change the Max. number to 1000 and open another tab on your computer. Go to http://www.babynamewizard.com/the-to...tes-of-america
Press "Generate" and you'll get a random number between 1 and 1000. For example, if I get the number 364, I'll go to the top 1000 name list and see what name 364 is. For a girl, it's Mila, for a boy, it's Brycen. I like the name Mila better than the name Brycen, so my first child's first name will be Mila. Then I'll press "Generate" again. If I get number 34, I'll look for name number 34 on the list. It's Brooklyn. So my first child's name is Mila Brooklyn.
Keep doing this until all your kids are named! Add any details you like, such as ages, pictures, or personalities.
Also, you can make 2 of your kids twins if you like, or 3 of them triplets! It doesn't have to be realistic, it's just for fun! Hope you enjoyed!(\_/)
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I will have 6 kids.
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Video Game Awards; The Winners and Losers (Updating…)
Tonight will be the 9th time the Video Game Awards will grace the stage, and television. Over the years, the award ceremony has been met with mostly criticism. The negative press seemed to have stemmed from the idea Spike TV was consistently trying to create a hip-award show, something that was similar to the MTV awards, rather than the film industry's annual staple: the Academy Awards.
Tonight will be different then past shows. This year, the network, along with the producers, are listening to the gamers, or so they say. While the awards will be handed out, the acceptance speech will be prerecorded in 30 second clips, so other content can be the main focus. Viewers can expect to experience more trailers, more news and live demos
on stage in an apartment. Basically, it sounds more like E3, with a few awards handed out in-between breaks.
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There's been a lot of talk lately about the offseason moves of the Dodgers and how they seem to have no regard at all for on-base percentage, which we all know to be vital if you want to score runs. I joked on Twitter the other day that I might almost be ready to start a "Free Jamey Carroll!" campaign, if only to have someone in the lineup who can actually get on base, and today Jon Weisman at Dodger Thoughts takes a deeper look at that idea. (Warning: you may not want to click that link if you didn't like the Juan Uribe signing and don't want to see stats that suggest Carroll was more valuable than Uribe in 2010.)
I wondered just how much losing the OBP skills of Russell Martin and others would hurt now that they've been replaced by the low-OBP likes of Uribe and Rod Barajas, but wasn't quite sure how to quantify it. Fortunately, baseball-reference had a similar question, in that they wondered how much the Red Sox offense would improve now that they've added Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford. They used the lineup generator at Baseball Musings to try and predict the estimated runs scored for the likely 2011 Sox lineup.
I'm going to do the same thing, by comparing what the generator said for the 2010 Dodger lineup as compared to the likely 2011 squad. To choose a starting 9, I went with the 8 players who had the most PA at their position in 2009, and put the top bench player – Carroll – in the pitcher's spot.
A lineup of Furcal, Martin, Kemp, Manny, Ethier, Blake, Loney, DeWitt, & Carroll would be predicted to score 5.148 runs / game. (The "ideal" lineup, featuring such moves as Carroll leading off and Manny 2nd, would get you 5.266 runs / game.)
A lineup of Furcal, Uribe, Kemp, Either, Blake, Loney, Barajas, Gibbons, & Carroll would be predicted to score 4.965 runs / game. (The "ideal" lineup gets you to 5.069.)
It's not an exact science, of course; the games do take place on the field and not in a database, and you certainly can't expect every player to perform identically to how they did the year before. We've always known that if there's not some bounceback from players like Kemp and Loney, the team's in big trouble anyway. But there's always the worry of Furcal breaking down, Blake continuing to regress, and the complete unknown of the left-field situation.
Long story short, it's not a good trend.
Over at TrueBlueLA, Eric Stephen posts one of my favorite pictures ever, as you can see a color-coded, numerically-based roster board behind Juan Uribe at his introduction last week. Eric notes that we see J.D. Closser and Jon Huber listed as non-roster invites, which we didn't know, but I also saw that John Lindsey is not listed under his #35. He's still technically on the 40-man roster, but that's about to be full, and his omission on the board almost certainly points to his departure. That doesn't mean he can't come back in the spring, of course, but any small bit of job security he may have had seems to be gone.
I hate, hate, hate to even acknowledge Bill Plaschke's presence, but if he's going to spout misinformation and stupidity, I suppose it's my job to refute him.
Today, Billy's complaining about how Los Angeles is apparently no longer a preferred baseball destination, because neither the Dodgers nor the Angels are going to land big-ticket free agents like Carl Crawford, Cliff Lee, or Jayson Werth. Nevermind that giving $130m+ contracts isn't always the best way to build a team, nevermind that Werth would never have come back to the Dodgers after how his previous tenure ended, and nevermind that the Dodgers needed to build an entire starting rotation, not just an ace. Nevermind that the Dodgers don't get marquee free agents because they're constrained by the McCourt divorce, a fact which Plaschke conveniently neglects to mention until the very last sentence. Why let facts get in the way of a sob story?
Rather than do the entire article, lest my keyboard get covered with bile, I'm going to pick and choose some of the fun ones.
In what may be the saddest of possible words, we were also the place that somebody named Matt Diaz just rejected for some place called Pittsburgh.
Though that did seem odd at first, Diaz – who went to high school in Florida – said he made the choice because he wanted to stay in the East and spend his spring in Florida. Also, the Dodgers never made a formal offer. Kind of hard to argue that, no?
The last time the Dodgers signed a premier free agent, they made Kevin Brown baseball's first $100-million man, but that was a dozen years and a million Kevin Malone jokes ago.
Well, there was the time they signed Manny Ramirez after 2008. He seemed pretty "premier" to me. Or when Rafael Furcal bolted Atlanta, then chose to stay when he hit free agency a second time. Or the $44m and $47m, respectively, they handed out to Juan Pierre and Jason Schmidt, and even though those were poor choices that didn't work out, they still happened. Or when Derek Lowe, J.D. Drew, and Jeff Kent all came to town. None of those guys got paid, or contributed, right?
These days, they don't even last as long as the Washington Nationals, whose $126-million contract for Jayson Werth borders on the clinically insane, but at least the Nationals are players.
Not that Werth was coming back, but if the Dodgers handed him $126m, you wouldn't be praising them for spending. You'd be assailing them for being foolish, just like we've all said about the Nationals. Don't deny it.
When is the last time someone really wanted to play baseball in Los Angeles?
Well, there was last winter, when Jamey Carroll turned down more years and dollars from Oakland to come to Los Angeles. Or when Jon Garland turned down the likelihood of more money with the Padres to come back to the Dodgers. Or when Hiroki Kuroda turned down the chance to test the market for a certain three-year deal for big dollars to come back to LA. Or when Jay Gibbons and Rod Barajas repeatedly said they wanted to be Dodgers. Or when Furcal, Ted Lilly, and Casey Blake all re-signed with the team after reaching free agency, rather than going elsewhere. And that's just the Dodgers, in the last year or two, not including the Angels, and off the top of my head. LA's actually a pretty good draw for players, wouldn't you say?
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Organic food advocacy Cornucopia Institute has released this list of companies that opposed labeling GMO foods in the recent initiative in Washington state known as I-522.
Organic food advocacy Cornucopia Institute has released this list of companies that opposed labeling GMO foods in the recent initiative in Washington state known as I-522.
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As American resistance to genetically modified (GMO) foods appears to grow — with several states proposing labeling laws and Internet chatter on the issue at an all-time high*– a new GMO surprise has sprouted.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, exports, GE foods, GMO foods, Japan, Monsanto, Roundup, South Korea, wheat
Genetically modified foods are everywhere, having crept into processed foods as key components, such as corn oil, corn flour, high fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, soy isolate, invert sugar and on down the food label. How can a consumer cope? Until GE foods are labeled, shoppers have to ferret out the non-GMO foods and ingredients.
Tags: · Agriculture, biotech, corn, engineered foods, GE foods, GMO foods, groceries, Non-GMO Project, Organic certification, Organics, packaged foods, soybeans, sugar beets
Despite opposition from farm and food groups, and a petition on SIgnOn.org, Congress passed the controversial Monsanto Protection Act on Thursday, freeing the giant biotech firm, and others like it, from annoying oversight by the USDA. Read about this window into how Washington works, for companies that are big enough.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Continuing Resolution, food safety, GE foods, GMO foods, Monsanto rider, Senate
Like most Americans not involved in agriculture, the massive 2013 Farm Bill falls into the realm of ho-hum government business that's a) complex beyond belief and b) is going to happen with or without your input.
And Monsanto — the world's biggest pesticide maker and owner of seeds (and by extension food) — is counting on that.
Tags: · Farm Bill 2013, genetically modified crops, GMO foods, Monsanto riders, petition to stop Monsanto riders, USDA approval process
With Thanksgiving and the winter holidays upon us, we're continuing our guide to the potential chemical and genetic engineering hazards in the holiday feast.
We looked at the Turkey (and faux turkeys) in Part 1. Now on to the veggies! One bright spot about vegetables is that medical research continues to verify the power of eating veggies in protecting against illnesses, even cancer.
Tags: · beans, cranberries, GMO foods, Holiday meals, potatoes, sweet corn, sweet potatoes
Graphic artist Rosemary Pant sent over her take on the California Right to Know campaign last week, and I'm posting a portion of it below.
Ms. Pant described herself as a person who "knew little to nothing" about Prop. 37, the campaign to label genetically modified foods.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, California Right to Know Campaign, fight against Prop. 37, genetically modified foods, GMO foods, Monsanto revolving door, Prop 37, support for Prop 37
On Nov. 6, California voters will say yea or nay to Proposition 37, which would require labeling for genetically modified or GM foods.
The issue, which became a ballot initiative after getting nearly a million petition signatures this past spring, appears to have wide popular support, according to polls. But it faces stiff opposition from pesticide makers like Monsanto, food companies, and dozens of California agricultural operations and business groups. Led by Monsanto, the opposition has collectively spent more than $34 million in advertising and public relations efforts opposing Prop. 37.
Tags: · bio-engineering, California Right to Know Campaign, food labels, GE foods, genetic modification, GM foods, GMO foods, No on 37 campaign
Rats fed genetically altered GMO corn suffered numerous health effects, including mammary, kidney and liver tumors that shortened their lives, according to a two year study of the effects of Round Up-Ready GMO corn.
Tags: · GE modified, GMO foods, PANNA, rat studies, tumors
This month as I prowled the web getting educated on the GM food battle percolating in our capital and courtrooms (as farmers sue Monsanto, and vice-versa), I stumbled upon a useful little booklet: The "True Food Shopper's Guide" to avoiding GMO foods.
Created by the Center for Food Safety, which has been all over this issue of genetically modified (GM) or genetically engineered (GE) foods for several years, the guide is a lifesaver if you're looking to reduce your exposure to edibles that have been genetically altered by Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta and Dow Chemical.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Center for Food Safety, GE food, GM food, GMO foods, labeling for GE foods, True Food Shopper's Guide
Organic milk, which has won strong consumer support in recent years, is being put at risk by the government's recent decision to deregulate genetically engineered alfalfa, says the president of one of the nation's most successful organic dairies.
Albert Straus, president of the Straus Family Creamery in California, says that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ruling allowing genetically modified alfalfa to be planted anywhere "will deprive consumers of their right to be certain that they are feeding organic food to their families."
Alfalfa is a key food for dairy cows, and unless cows are fed an organic diet, their milk cannot qualify to be Organically certified. Alfalfa, the fourth most-planted crop in the nation, could be changed forever if GE varieties are planted across the U.S., Straus says in a statement today.
Tags: · alfalfa, California, deregulation, GE crops, GM crops, GMO foods, greenrightnow.com, Monsanto, non GMO foods, seed drift, Straus Family Creamery, USDA
By Barbara Kessler
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Corn-based ethanol, once a star on the alternative energy scene, has fallen from favor in the past year, battered by reports that raising corn for fuel raids the world's pantry and that corn ethanol has a heavier carbon footprint than originally thought.
Many now argue over whether the US should continue to grow corn for fuel or make the switch to grasses that can be grown on less desirable land, with fewer pesticides and fertilizers, or use plant waste to make fuel.
Now a new debate looms: Should the US allow genetically altered corn to be grown for use as biofuel?
The Union of Concerned Scientists wants to stop that genie before it leaves the bottle, because it believes that genetically modified corn will inevitably mix with and contaminate corn grown for food products.
Tags: · Amylase Corn, Biofuels, Cellulose, FDA, GMO foods, switch grass, Syngenta, Union of Concerned Scientists, USDA


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